M 5.6 in Indonesia from 02 May 2021 17:46 UTC to 17:46

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1267232
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 16.38 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.3715 , 99.7316
Event Date: 02 May 2021 17:46 UTC
03 May 2021 00:46 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VI
About 40000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 May 2021 18:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000dziv Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -1.73  
  C2 shakemap 0.79  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 258 | About casualties: 17 | Last hour: 0

Moderate 4.8 quake hits near Mati, Davao Oriental, Davao, PhilippinesThu, 06 May 2021 15:38:00 +0200.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 occurred only 13 minutes ago 84 km southeast of Mati, Philippines, Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency reported. The quake hit at a shallow depth of 10 km beneath the epicenter near Ma
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Moderate mag. 4.8 earthquake - Philippines Sea, 84 km south of Mati, P ... Thu, 06 May 2021 15:38:00 +0200.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 occurred only 13 minutes ago 84 km southeast of Mati, Philippines, Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency reported. The quake hit at a shallow depth of 10 km beneath the epicenter near Ma
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Moderate 4.4 quake hits near Tobelo, Kabupaten Halmahera Utara, North ... Thu, 06 May 2021 14:06:00 +0200.

A shallow magnitude 4.4 earthquake was reported in the evening near Tobelo, Kabupaten Halmahera Utara, North Maluku, Indonesia. According to Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency, the quake hit on Thursday 6 May 2021
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Moderate yet deep earthquake of magnitude 5.1 just reported 73 km sout ... Wed, 05 May 2021 20:26:00 +0200.

A magnitude 3.5 earthquake near Ambler, Northwest Arctic, Alaska, USA, was reported only 11 minutes ago by the United States Geological Survey, considered the key international and national agency that monitors seismic activity in the US. T
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),